This article was co-authored with Prof. Antonio Rigozzi and was published in Law In Sport in  April 2017 

The CAS was established in 1984 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in order to create a supreme instance for sports disputes, away from the jurisdiction of State Courts. After a landmark decision rendered by the Swiss Federal Tribunal (SFT) in 1993 in the widely-known Gundel case, the CAS proceeded to a series of reforms in order to become an independent arbitral institution. The fact that the CAS has (always) its seat in Switzerland reflects on the CAS proceedings, which are imperatively governed by the Swiss law of arbitration.